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Old 08-21-2023, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
I saw in the news that New York City is spending $10,000 a month for each illegal immigrant at one shelter. I know that New York City is very expensive but $10,000 per immigrant per month seems crazy! In New York City, the median household income is $67,046. In the Villages in 2019, the median household income was $63,841.



Randall's Island migrant shelter to cost NY taxpayers $20M a month -- or $10G for every migrant: source
Inefficiency, waste, theft, creative accounting, and exaggeration. Some combination of all six will makes the actual cost unknowable.
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